Israel Affinity Organizations: Advocacy

Data

Advocacy
IAOs leverage and focus the collective might of the other affiliated
IAOs, from federations and JCRCs to the wealthy donors that fund subsidy
IAOs, on massive public relations campaigns, targeting Congress and the
White House as well as key government agencies. The political clout,
focused at the federal level, has made massive annual (and ad hoc
add-ons during the year) “aid legislation” providing funding for weapons
and programs in Israel such as the “Iron Dome” missile defense system,
and non-binding resolutions pledging political and diplomatic support,
an entitlement that can never be rationally debated or reassessed.
Though often reported in the news media as military “sales” to Israel,
the arms deals represent a transfer of tax dollars for Israel to either
purchase U.S. arms or invest in its own weapons programs, most of which
produce high-margin exports for Israel. IAO advocacy organizations exert
pressure on politicians via their indirect and direct influence on
campaign contributions and their ability to field opposing primary
candidates if an incumbent fails to be sufficiently deferential.
A study of lobbying on Capitol Hill that interviewed hundreds of
staffers reveals that there is no such thing as being “too deferential”
to AIPAC.

Advocacy IAOs publish news and information while continually organizing
public events to promote Israel. The American Israel Education
Foundation, an arm of AIPAC, takes politicians, journalists and other
elites on free trips to promote Israeli policy objectives. Other IAO
advocacy organizations attack enemies by censuring, suing and attempting
to defund critics of Israel. Linkages have been formed between Israel
and advocacy IAOs, and between advocacy IAOs. For example, all
executives of an umbrella organization called the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations are automatically
members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which does most
of the lobbying on Capitol Hill. Media watchdog advocacy IAOs try to
buff up Israel’s image through story placement and censuring unfavorable
press.

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Incorporation or IRS Ruling Year

EIN

Employees

Volunteers

Organization

Actual
US Revenue 2012

Forecast US Revenue 2020

1963

530217164

401

0

American Israel Public Affairs Committee

$71,844,486

$157,348,849

1946

131818723

409

3500

Anti-Defamation League

$53,574,910

$66,972,652

1935

131624240

144

185

Jewish Federations of North America

$49,030,087

$37,839,387

1906

135563393

294

1896

American Jewish Committee

$47,887,833

$33,422,450

1989

521623781

0

0

American Israel Education Foundation

$43,681,414

$133,816,849

2002

230053483

0

5

Jewish Agency for Israel - North
American Council

$12,221,956

$20,168,779

1985

521386172

17

50

Republican Jewish Coalition

$10,067,507

$11,376,271

1984

521376034

63

15

Washington Institute for Near East
Policy

$9,732,737

$16,359,891

2001

010566033

72

97

Israel Emergency Alliance aka
Standwithus

$8,716,377

$14,248,475

2001

134174402

37

32

Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies

$7,267,839

$38,496,438

1936

530179971

264

295

B'i B'rith International

$7,002,140

$7,802,064

2003

371472882

39

10

The Israel Project

$5,901,857

$16,080,274

2007

223951652

19

0

Israeli American Council

$5,530,886

$10,211,421

1997

522068483

19

5

Middle East Media Research Institute

$4,909,892

$14,257,190

1986

237749796

12

Middle East Forum

$4,676,303

$10,409,993

2005

202777557

0

25

J Street Education Fund

$4,316,060

$11,500,032

1976

521233683

15

0

Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs

$3,783,167

$7,668,883

1983

521332702

33

10

Committee for Accuracy in Middle East
Reporting

$3,601,895

$6,236,794

1988

521601976

15

21

Center for Security Policy

$3,289,105

$11,248,765

1944

131624104

35

300

Jewish Council for Public Affairs

$3,128,795

$2,944,759

2002

161616489

26

The David Project

$2,824,763

$5,737,356

2006

134331855

0

0

Investigative Project on Terrorism
Foundation

$2,524,640

$4,272,406

1920

135628475

28

73

Zionist Organization of America

$2,489,207

$3,721,577

2007

133610041

16

Commentary

$2,463,839

$1,855,992

2008

800263559

0

0

Israel Strategic Alternative Energy
Foundation

$2,108,436

$5,906,631

2012

460540994

2

The Israel Institute

$2,014,918

1978

133509867

10

0

Americans for Peace Now

$1,839,184

$1,656,581

2008

262387657

4

United Against a Nuclear Iran

$1,790,454

$5,642,496

1982

133116652

5

Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish
Organizations Fund

$1,619,517

$2,613,619

2010

273480535

0

0

Friends of Israel Initiative

$805,883

$3,898,427

2010

272572894

Emergency Committee for Israel

$1,450,157

$4,876,514

2006

205845679

6

3

Clarion Fund

$1,374,578

$151,442

2009

264392915

15

16

Foreign Policy Initiative

$1,344,013

$3,224,163

2007

262971061

0

0

American Friends of NGO Monitor aka
Report

$1,246,110

$6,681,979

2001

061611859

2

0

Middle East Media Watch DBA Honest
Reporting

$1,229,784

$12,470,712

2011

300664947

13

6

Israel on Campus Coalition

$1,158,638

$129,316

1990

521706068

National Jewish Democratic Council

$1,138,648

$741,722

2004

201651102

11

Hasbara Fellowships

$1,132,933

$1,123,949

2012

454724565

10

1

Gatestone Institute

$1,099,023

2007

260501656

3

4

International Israeli Allies Caucus
Foundation

$1,066,890

$33,212,115

1972

132700517

6

0

National Conferences on Soviet Jewry

$981,622

$1,257,270

2003

141891915

2

12

Israel Venture Network

$775,242

$2,397,856

1964

132500881

9

Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish
Organizations

$609,761

$568,184

1985

521433850

3

0

National Jewish Policy Center

$603,781

$685,664

2001

770571579

0

0

Israel21C

$575,811

$593,632

2008

263402247

0

5

Israel-America Academic Exchange

$551,100

$4,090,513

2004

201381912

5

0

Institute for the Study of Global
Anti-Semitism and Policy

$490,881

$-

1994

943092706

0

0

Facts and Logic about the Middle East

$465,341

$852,097

2006

201437733

Secure Community Network

$433,960

$468,121

1934

131675650

0

0

Jewish Labor Committee

$419,965

$403,074

2008

261416892

Association for the Study of the Middle
East and Africa

$394,184

$2,396,842

1993

132679404

6

30

American Zionist Movement

$387,922

$770,585

2011

451683502

United Nations Watch

$380,488

2010

272402908

5

0

Lawfare Project

$358,939

$1,755,801

1932

131679610

0

0

American Jewish Congress

$357,569

$65,642

1916

135611746

1

11

Religious Zionists of America Mizrachi
Hapoel Hamizrachi

$357,321

$90,863

2010

453204617

4

Louis D. Brandeis Center

$351,913

$9,717,074

2011

450949784

4

Jewish News Service

$334,978

$1,401,657

2003

421565640

2

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East

$286,340

$2,819,322

2006

204329740

Endowment for Middle East Truth

$278,166

$4,524,744

1972

510181418

0

0

Americans for a Safe Israel

$266,286

$196,287

2002

352162870

Minnesotans Against Terrorism

$228,210

$213,991

2012

460774311

0

2

AMCHA Initiative

$199,155

1984

680028695

0

20

Jewish Public Affairs Committee Of
California

$157,467

$134,418

2010

263766713

Judaism Alive

$130,334

$270,876

1996

113259920

Phyllis Chesler Organization

$122,437

$111,682

2005

270095260

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in
Saudi Arabia

$53,280

$52,309

2003

050538790

Myths and Facts

$18,085

$11,043

2,082

6,633

$403,457,399

$762,176,762

In aggregate, Israel Affinity Organizations were
the number two “charity” in America in 2012, just behind the United Way,
but ahead of the Salvation Army. Given their above-average growth rate,
it is reasonable to assume they will soon be number one, if they are not
already. That is because the Iran nuclear threat campaign—a manufactured
crisis—appears to have mobilized levels of financial support not
achieved since the late 1930s through the end of the 1940s.

Most of the financial data in this report and in
the following tables has been gathered by examining the IRS form 990 tax
returns filed by each IAO. To achieve a common basis of comparison, data
reported by an IAO on a year 2012 form 990 is counted entirely as 2012
data, even if an organization’s fiscal year does not end on December 31.
The figure in the “launch” column is the year the organization was
established, incorporated or received IRS tax-exempt status. EIN
(employee identification number) is the organization’s unique taxpayer
ID number. EE is claimed employees for the year 2012, while Vol. is the
claimed number of volunteers.

The revenue figure used in the column “2012” is
from IRS form 990 line 12, “total revenue.” This line, the net of public
and government contributions (most government contributions are
negligible), plus any program-related activities, plus or minus
investment returns, provides the best snapshot of actual year resources
available to implement an IAO’s programs. No attempt is made to net out
conduit transfers. Therefore, if an IAO solicits and receives $10,000 in
public contributions, only to transfer that amount to another IAO,
aggregate IAO revenue counted for the year will be $20,000. Figures for
IAO employees and volunteers are those reported by the organization’s
most recent available IRS form 990. Figures for year 2020 revenue are
the author’s forecast using regression analysis of revenue growth from
2001-2012 (or from the IAO’s launch year, if that occurred after 2001).

A blank in the 2020 column indicates an IAO
appears to be on revenue track to become defunct by that year or
earlier. Some organizations are listed that have no 2012 revenue or that
may have been defunct by that year. Many of these appear in the full
online database at IsraelLobby.org if they were involved in interesting
activities, such as illegal settlements, or espionage, as mentioned in
the case of the Alliance for
Competitive Technology.